“A girl who is not me”
Patrick Evans’s recent novel Gifted is a remarkable portrait of Janet Frame from the point of view of Frank Sargeson, and evokes again the extraordinary interactions between her autobiography and her complex and riddling texts. Frame’s fiction has constantly challenged readers to fresh interpretive...
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | Patrick Evans’s recent novel Gifted is a remarkable portrait of Janet Frame from the point of view of Frank Sargeson, and evokes again the extraordinary interactions between her autobiography and her complex and riddling texts. Frame’s fiction has constantly challenged readers to fresh interpretive strategies. Her work has been co-opted to a succession of discursive moments deriving from postmodernism, postcolonialism and feminism, yet all her narrative characteristics have been in place since she published The Lagoon and Other Stories in 1951. A particular problem for critics has been the interaction between Frame’s autobiography and her fiction, but a way to think about this might be to consider Frame’s instructions to readers in Living in the Maniototo (1979) which ask the reader to take seriously some of the riddles of being that apply not only to the dead author’s texts but to the questions she poses for readers who pay attention. |
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